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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 31.

Events

19th century

• 1842 – The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway opens to Werneth in northwest England.
• 1862 – The West Somerset Railway opens to passenger service on its line from a connection with the Bristol and Exeter Railway west of Taunton to Watchet.

20th century

• 1917 – New York City Subway's IRT White Plains Road Line extension from 180th Street-Bronx Park to Nereid Avenue-238th Street opens.
• 1924 – American Car and Foundry acquires Pacific Car and Foundry.
• 1978 – A 1-kilometre long (0.62 mi) extension of the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line to Yoyogi-Uehara station is opened.
• 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (the Rock Island) ceases operations.
• 1987 – Services at Yatsumori Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, are reduced such that trains only stop on a seasonal basis.

21st century

• 2005 – Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. is awarded a $499 million order to build 340 new commuter coaches and power cars for PATH in New York and New Jersey; the order is part of a plan to completely replace PATH's entire fleet of cars.

Deaths

• 1913 – J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation (b. 1837).
• 1949 – Grant Stauffer, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1948-1949, dies.